Paws for the important things in life

Here's one of Phindy's adorable Wee Babbies, used with a matching sentiment from the Create with TLC set.  Each month Paulette and Phnidy have a collaboration and this one is irresistable as it has several sentiments that will be perfect to use with dog images.  This little fellow is called Resistance.  I used my new Prima DP pad again and matched his T-shirt stripe colours to those in the paper.  I also got some stripy twine from Quixotic Paperie that I used on the button and around of the the matted papers.  It arrived less than 24hrs after ordering, which I think is pretty impressive:).  I followed a sketch at ICS which is unusual, really like the effect it gives.

My card is for the following challenges:
Inspirational Card Sketches - sketch
Creative Inspirations Paint - inspired by animals
The Crafty Pad - buttons
2 Sisters - oh baby
Alphabet Challenge - stripes
Fairy Tales - children/babies
Creative Belli - animals and old stash (button)

DT Posting - Cooking it up with Katie - button me a blue bow!

This is the last of the forntnightly challenges from the Cooking it up with Katie Challenge - next week it becomes a weekly challenge blog so there's even more opportunity to  join in the fun!  This week the challenge is to use the following ingredients:

• blue
• button(s)
• bow

This week's sponsor is Fairy Knoll and I have used their Annika image, she is coloured with Copics and some Stickles on her wings. The image comes with some lovely butterflies on which I have removed from my image, she looks great with or without them:).  Annika is sitting on a patchwork quilt, this DP is from a Joann Sheen CD.  The CD has some lovely things to print out, which are not really my cup of tea.  However this DP is just what I've been searching for, as a quilter, and I ended up getting the CD fr the one sheet of paper - mad or what!  I will try and use some of the other things, promise...:).

The lovely sentiment, "Wishing you the fairy best" is from Create with TLC, cut out with a Nestie.  The image background is pearlescent blue card, run through a Cuttlebug folder and the main background is a scrummy piece of Glimmer Misted card that I've been hoarding.  Organza ribbon and buttons are from stash.

I'm entering this very cute image for Papertake Weekly's Cutie Patootie Challenge and also for Allsort's Challenge of Summer Days.  


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Until Further Notice...

I've come across a new-to-me digiblog called Create with TLC,that specialises in sentiments, with many generous freebies. As soon as I saw this sentiment I knew it was right for a card for a friend who has been gravely ill after heart surgery, I just needed to find the right image to go with it. You might think it's not really a "get well" type sentiment and it isn't. Frank's surgery did not go as planned and he has spent many weeks completely out of it, in intensive care and in limbo as it was uncertain whether he would recover at all. Thanks to email, we've had almost daily updates on his situation and at last, things are going the right way. He has moved hospitals to one only an hour from his home and, fingers crossed, he will be making his escape soon:). He is alive, each day another tube or drip or drain is removed and I think he is celebrating being able to continue getting older:).

Card is fairly simple: I used a Rachelle Ann Miller stamp that I bought second hand, shamefully never used (by me) until today. Image coloured with copics, edged with Distress Inks, cut with a Nellie Snellen frame and mounted on a Nestie shape. The paper is Prima, I saw it and fell for it big time, the reverse is yummy too. Twill tape is from stash. The image is straight, it is the pattern on the card that is an irregular pattern:).

I'm entering the Simon Says "You gotta have friends" challenge and the Spoonful of Sugar Animal Crackers challenge with this card.